Mr. Lopez is an independent consultant. He has been a university Java professor and speaker at several conferences including Oracle Open World, Oracle Code, JavaOne and OTN/ODT Tour.
He earned a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering and holds the following certifications and recognitions: Java Champion, Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador, Oracle Ace (alumni), Duke Choice Award winner, OCI Foundations, OCI Developer, OCP Java 8, OCPJMAD, OCPWCD and Oracle ADF Implementation Specialist.

He organizes the Cali Java Users Group (www.clojug.org), member of the JEspañol (www.jespanol.org) steering committee and an active blogger at www.acelopez.com. In recent years, Mr. Lopez has been architecting Web applications for his clients and has helped them to adopt good development practices, such as continuous integration/delivery.